St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-05
And Nominate the Husband and Father
for Governor of the Blue
Grass State.
A Meeting characterized by An Ex-
traord1nary Amount of Vim
and Energy.
Ringing Speeches Made in Favor OF
Old Fashioned Democracy and
Honest KuIe.

was effected by electing Hon. Sam
uel E. Hill, of Stanford, chairman,
who appointed the regular committees.
Hon. James Mckenzie introduced a resolu-
tion heartily endorsing the administration
OF President Cleveland. and moved its adop-
tl0n without awaiting the completion of Il
permanent organization or the formalty of
a reference to the committee on resolutions
Mckenzie was cheered as he read his reso-
luton, but Congressman Taulbee sprang
to his feet and moved that McKen-
zle'S motion be laid on the table, de-
claring that its adoption would COM
nit the Democracy of Kentucky
to policies to which it was known to be an
tagonistic, such as silver, civil service. etc.
He was for any resolution indorsing Presi-
dent Clevelands honesty and integrity of
purpose. Cheers. After withdrawing
his motion to lay upon the table his motion
that tie resolution be referred to the COM
mttee on resolutions was passed. While
the committees were out calls were made
for speeches.
HENRY WATTERSON
entered the hall, and being recognized on
the outskirts of the crowd, was received
with great enthusiasm. Mr.. Watterson
was escorted to the stand amid continuous
salient points of his address,:
Rarely i'll the history of the country has
there been greater need of some vitalizine
current i'll the Democratic councilsithan there
now is, and where shall We look to find this
vitalizng current if not in Kentucky? The
only distinct Democratic policy which at this
time awakens the enthusiasm of
friends and excites the denunciation of
foes is everywhere described as the
Kentucky idea." Cheers. And what is the
Kentucky ieda? 1t is, as far las am able to
interpret it-and if there be anything do
understand, as the old lady said of her
"bluin,' it is the Democracy of Kentucky
[Great laughterl lit is a sturdy clinging to
the idea that the government belongs to the
many, and is not the exclusive
property of the few Tapplause], and
an obstinate insistance that this idea shall be
carried into every administrative and legis-
lative affair, aud applied alike to the self
annointed and great unwashed. Laug hter
and applause. Fellow Democrats. we have
stumbled upon times which, if they do not
try mems souls, are enough to nauseate dogs.
Turn which ever way you will it shall go
lucky with you if you do not stick your nose
into bottle of patent medicine prepared for
the regeneration of mankind. The air is
FULL OF NOSThUMS.
There is the prOtectiOniStS, wonderful iron
tonic for making men rich by taxation; great
laughter) there is thessMugwumps civil service
elixir for purifying the system and perpetual
ing liberty by the erection of an ariStocracy
OF office on the ruins OF representative gov
ernments; there is the pauper pa
triotic liniment which promises to ex-
terminate vagabondage by making every
tramp pensioner; Cheers and continuous
laughterl. and which we should have actually
had administered to us. but for the fly which
Grover Cleveland dropped into the first box
of the ointment submitted to his inspection
Cheers. There is that delicious sugar
coated, double-compound educational capsule
which is to be given to every little
niger in the land before he goes
to bed, and when he gets up in the
morning he shall come forth scholar
and a gentleman. Prolonged laughter. And
then there is Fox's universal renovator and
social, moral and political cure-all, the tee
total prohibition porous plaster laughterl,
which will stick to you like brother, and
laughter which is expected to convert every
drinking saloon into temple of worship, and
to repeOple the world with q new race of red
nosed angels. Laughter and applause.] l
am against each and all of these Quack reme-
dies applanse and against the man who is
in favor of any one Of them; applause and
more particularly against him if he claims to
be a Democrat. Loud applause. They are
the
vAPORINGS OF MOCK SENTIMENT
and the bastards of paternal RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Applause. They strike at the root Of our
Constitutional system which was conceived in
the right of man to govern himself, and
brought forth to meet the evil that mankind
is governed too much. 1t would amaze
the fathers OF this republic to look in
on us to-day and behold the elab-
crate architecture and the costly
and variegated furniture which the vanity
and avarice Of men and the ingenuity of the
devil have contrived TO overlay and decorate
the simple republican structure they hewed
out of the primeval forces of nature and
1,,,iit Nf tha Of
If it is not the mission OF the Democratic
party to preserve in the new something of
the spirit of the old [applause], to combine
tradition with movement, and to tighten the
highways Of progress with brands snatched
from the fire kIndled by those who launched
the ark of the Union and made the covenant
of states, then there is no future for US but q
repetition of history which had better never
been. ! have followed the morning
star of Democracy through the darkest hours
of the midnight of reconstruction, and with
the dawn of peace and reason have seen it
shine over united people applause as
bright and clear as the star of Bethlehem,
which presaged the coming Of Christ; and as
truly as 1 believe that God reigns and orders
all things for good do 1 believe that this
MORNING STAR OF DEMOCRACY
which has returned to its meridian and shines
once more above the White house at Wash
ington, preSages the final triumph of freedom
and the reign forever and aye of the peoples
simple majesty. Prolonged applause Itis
because believe this that am unwilling to
to the encrOachments of inuo-
vation, and hold these innovations
more dangerous when they come clad in the
raiment and flying the flag of spurious
Democracy. Cheers. l had rather meet
fifty enemies ON the open plain in honest
fight than one single enemy disguised as a
friend. Applause
After Watterson, Senator Joe Blackburn
received hearty call for a speech, and de-
liyered ringing Democratic address, such
as onlv he can deliver. After referring to
Kentucky's affairs, he said:
Let Kentucky's sovereign Democracy send
forth to other states a platform SO broad, so
true, so Catholic, so Democratic that it shall
be taken as the cornerstone of the national
platform to be framed In the next national
campaign.
HON. w. p. BR ECKENRIDGE,
congressman from the Ashland district
who will probably be the next chairman of
the ways and means committee, in response
to repeated calls, in his remarks said:
This convention has the opportunity to
put Kentucky at the head of the Democratic
column If it has the conservatism, the pru
dence, the firmuess and the wisdoms and he
who to-day undertakes to speak from this
platform to this convention, should speak
with sense OF that Responsibility
upon HIM. lApplause.l We are part ofIhe
American Democracy, we are out OF the
cloud of the war, we are away from the Sec
tional disputes, we are the first convention to
lay down platform for the broad national
and Kentucky can, under Carlisle |
be like she was under Clay. and have her
words repeated and approved ell over Amer
ica
Addresses were also made by Green o.
Smith, lieutenant governor of lndiada, DR..
E. ID. Standiford and others. of Louisville.
A After the speeches the band struck up and
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